Richard "Rico" Rivera Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, AZ

• Consultant for Zambakari Advisory (2015 to Current)
• Coauthor manuscripts for publications.
• Mentored student into matriculating into graduate school
• Consult research interns (data analyst, GIS map developers) on the analyses of data on East African Community, Horns of Africa, and Middle East & North Africa. Some of findings were presented at Nile Institute for.
• Consult Assessment Development, Item Analyses, Common Factor Analyses, Confirmatory Factor
• Co-authored manuscript for peer-reviewed article

Scottsdale, Arizona

I assisted the Research and Development Team advance TTI Success Insights vision in becoming the world's go-to source for research-based validated assessments to enable organizations to reveal human potential and human capital needs.

618 N. Central Ave, Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85004

• Served on CABHP’s Leadership Council.
• Consulted on research methods and statistical analyses.
• Research/project management (create timelines, schedules, review progress status, monitor contract budgets).
• Developed budgets for funding proposals. Co-wrote data sharing or business associates agreements with state funded agencies.
• Wrote sections (e.g., methods/data analysis) for proposals and manuscript
• Supervised team responsible for data analytic support and database management (data quality, security and documentation) for research and evaluation studies. Supervised the work of a GIS-Map developer.

Arizona State Univeristy At Downtown Phoenix Campus

• Managed projects.
• Recruited, trained and supervised data analysts/research assistants.
• Trained research assistants to use SPSS.
• Analyzed quantitative data for research and evaluation studies conducted by the center’s research staff.
• Served as statistician and consultant to university research teams for the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJDATS Phase II), national multisite research studies of the implementation of innovative.
• Conducted propensity score analyses for the evaluation of the Parent-to-Parent Recovery Program. Sponsor: Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) and SAMHSA.

Mathematical Sciences And Applied Computing, ASU At West Campus, Glendale, AZ

• Managed the day-to-day operations of the Statistics Lab.
• Provided consultation in software usage, research design, and survey development principally for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty.
• Hired, trained and supervised lab technicians.
• Conducted introductory and intermediate SPSS workshops for methods and statistical courses taught at ASU West campus.
• Developed and maintained the statistics lab website

Research Consulting Center, ASU At The West Campus, Glendale AZ

• Provided consultation in statistics, software use, research design, and survey development for students, staff, faculty, and research teams.
• Managed day-to-day operations of the Statistics Lab.

Masters, Measurement, Statistics, & Methodological Studies

Activities and Societies: For thesis conducted Structural Equation Model and Missing Data Theory

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Major: Psychology; Minor: Life Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Barrett's Honor's College; Summa Cum Laude, Active in Psi Chi (ΨΧ); Research assistant in Vision Sciences.